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This Awesome Urn Will Turn You into a Tree After You Die | Design for Good You don't find many designers working in the funeral business thinking about more creative ways for you to leave this world (and maybe they should be). However, the product designer Gerard Moline has combined the romantic notion of life after death with an eco solution to the dirty business of the actual, you know, transition. His Bios Urn is a biodegradable urn made from coconut shell, compacted peat and cellulose and inside it contains the seed of a tree. Once your remains have been placed into the urn, it can be planted and then the seed germinates and begins to grow. I, personally, would much rather leave behind a tree than a tombstone. Editor's Note: The Bios Urn is a patented design of Estudimoline, the design company of Gerard Moline, a Catalan artist and product designer who designed Bio Urn for animals in 1999.
Top 5 Ways to Hack into Your Web Application (and how to close those security loopholes!) Are you familiar with white hat hacking? If you aren’t, you should be. White hat hacking is a planned attack that checks your systems for vulnerabilities. After the hacker successfully (and harmlessly) compromises your environment, they tell you what to do to fix it. Even though most security loopholes are well-documented, I’m surprised how many open exploits are in applications that we security scan here at INetU. So stand by for a little White Hat Hacking 101, where I’ll teach you how to hack into your own site. Hack One: Injection Attacks I’ll start with injection exploits because most IT professionals, even though they have cursory basic understanding of the dangers, leave too many sites open to the vulnerability, according to the Open Web Applications Security Project (OWASP). Find a page on your application that accepts user-supplied information to access a database: A login form, signup form, or “forgot password” form is a good start. Hack Two: PHP Remote File Includes
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Magento: How to get attribute name and value? | Mukesh Chapagain's Blog Attribute in Magento is like a property. All Products, Categories, Orders, Customers, etc. have attributes. For example, the attribute of a product is its name, sku, description, image, etc. This article will show you how to get attribute name and value for any product. Get attribute’s name, value, type, and other parameters The attribute code in the case below is my_attribute. Get value from a select box attribute The attribute code is supposed to be ‘my_attribute‘ Load any particular attribute by attribute code Get all option value list for the particular attribute You can see above that I got attribute information by attribute code. Here is the code to get all option values for my attribute $attributeInfo. Get all options of any attribute Getting all options of attribute with attribute-code “color“. Get attribute’s option information by option id I have my attribute as $attributeInfo. Suppose, I want to get detail information of any option listed in strong>$attributeOptions array.
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Magento: Getting product attributes values and labels I have found that it is very useful to be able to get attributes from the system and use them in places other than a products category page. I always forget the exact syntax to use so, this is going to be my unofficial cheat sheet. This is how to get a drop down lists options. I don’t think it will work for a mulit-select attribute. 1. 2.foreach ( $attribute->getSource()->getAllOptions(true, true) as $option){ 3. I had a trickier time getting values for a multi-select attribute. 01. 02. 03.foreach($attributes as $a){ 04.if($a->getAttributeCode() == 'desired_attribute_code'){ 05.foreach($a->getSource()->getAllOptions(false) as $option){ 06. Here is a better way to get the multi-select attribute values. 1. 2. 3. 4. If you only need to retrieve a value for a product you can try this way 2. I added this code snip it below to possibly answer a question that was posted. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Entity Type Id’s $entityType is an integer id for what type of entity the attribute is associated to. 02. 04. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. 15. 19.
HellBound Hackers Create new module “HelloWorld” – in Magento | Magento-4U Do you want to create a new page in Magento ? or Do you want to create a new module in Magento ? If yes, Then ok, just spend 10 minutes and follow below steps. Objectives: I will create a new page in Magento whose output will be “Hello World ! I am a Magento Guy..”. Target: Create a new module called “HelloWorld” Step 1: Module Declaration Create app/etc/modules/M4U_HelloWorld.xml and write below code Step 2: Module Configuration a. b. c. create configuration xml in app/code/local/M4U/HelloWorld/etc/config.xml Define Frontend Template : 1. N.B: Use default instead of M4U as template location if you use default design packages. 2. N.B: Use default instead of M4U as template location if you use default design packages. Hello World ! Hey, new module is ready to run and hit browser with url and see result. That’s it…….. Is it easy or not ? Coder, Please at first try yourself. Ohh.., Still are you facing problem ? Like this: Like Loading...
Change the Windows 7 Login Screen Background Image When you login to your Windows 7 computer (assuming you haven’t used something like this tutorial to turn on automatic login), you’ll generally see a login window with a background looking something like this. It’s fine; there’s nothing wrong with it. But sometimes a change is good so in this article we’ll show you how to change the background image behind the login screen to anything you want. The first step is to open up the Start Menu by clicking the orb in the lower left corner of the screen. Now, in the Start Menu search box, type regedit, to open up the Registry Editor. When the Registry Editor appears in the Start Menu, click the Enter key to launch it. Now, right-click on the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder, and choose the Find option. The search window will appear so perform a search for OEMBackground. Note: it’s possible that OEMBackground doesn’t exist on your system; if this is the case, adding a new DWORD value with the name of OEMBackground will fix things.
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